Since Bai Yifei came to Baiyue F4 to send a wave of community cold, Baiyue F4 has not moved anymore, and has been honest for a while.

Of course, they don't want to be silent.

After all, they were beaten by Bai Yifei and had to lie in bed for ten days and half a month.

And in the past half a month, there are always people who are busy and some who are leisurely.

For example, Han Fei, as Si Kou, he still did not listen to Zhang Ji's advice to give up the investigation, but contacted Tang Qi, the hall master of the Seven Peerless Hall, through Wei Zhuang.

The current Qijue Hall is no longer the gang that was blocked outside a bridge by the Scorpion Gate in the past, but after completely digesting the territory of the Scorpion Gate in his hands, he has swallowed up the forces of the three large gangs of Qingzhu Gang, Sancunmen and Guan Shankou in one go.

Nowadays, the territory on the surface of the Seven Peerless Hall has expanded to the entire Xinzheng East City and West City, and the entire half of the city has to pay protection fees to them while paying taxes to the government, and this half of Xinzheng City is also full of their eyeliner.

If he didn't dare to completely anger Ji Wuye, with the power of the Seven Peerless Hall, he would even have the spare strength to reach out to the southern city where the magnates lived, and the northern city where the children of the royal family and the top magnates lived.

It is also because of the great improvement of the strength of the Seven Absolute Hall, the Seven Absolute Hall has also recruited a lot of good players in the rivers and lakes, including many martial artists who are good at lurking at night, they lurked near Zhang Ji's mansion according to Tang Qi's order, and happened to see the battle between Zhang Ji and the Baiyue people that night.

Of course, they naturally couldn't see the scene of Flame Spirit Ji.

However, the figure and strength of the four people, such as the Peerless Ghost, the Exorcist, the Hundred Poison King and Tianze, they can see it clearly.

Originally, Han Fei, who had almost no clues, was very distressed, but now that he got a lot of clues, he felt even more distressed.

The identities of the Peerless Ghost, the Hundred Poison King, and the Exorcist are still uncertain, but the identities of Tianze are really known by too many people.

Tang Qi, as a veteran who participated in the Baiyue Rebellion War, realized that it was the Baiyue Waste Prince, the Red Eyebrow Dragon Monarch Tianze, the moment he heard the report of his subordinates.

What's more, now Han Fei is also by his side Li Kai, the former commander of the left-wing army during the Baiyue Rebellion War.

And after flipping through the files and historical books of South Korea, he also realized why Zhang Ji asked him not to meddle in this matter.

Before the Tang Dynasty, most of the historical books were compiled by private individuals, and the royal families themselves would also compile historical books, but no matter what kind of history books, they would have some personal opinions and some political factors, so these historical books had certain inaccuracies in the historical records.

When Han Fei found nothing in the dossiers and historical books kept by the Korean royal family, he knew that this matter was not simple.

In addition to the historical books compiled by the Korean royal family, Han Fei visited several scribes who were interested in cultivating history as a disciple of Xunzi, but found that the historical books they recorded were the same as those kept by the Korean royal family, and there was a gap in the period before his father, the king of the current Han Dynasty, ascended the throne.

Although he has not studied history, there are some things he still knows.

For the Venerable, for the relatives, for the sage.

Nominally, it is to avoid the names of respect, relatives, and virtuous, but in fact, it is to conceal their evil deeds and failures.

And isn't the blank in the historical books in front of him used to hide the truth that he can't bear to look at?

Just when Han Fei was worried about Tianze's affairs, Zhang Ji was smiling.

Because, the first batch of paper was successfully manufactured!

When Zhang Ji heard a report from a craftsman, he immediately came to the courtyard assigned to the craftsmen, and the craftsmen inside gathered around and pointed at the paper in front of him. Seeing Zhang Ji coming, they all saluted and spread out, allowing Zhang Ji to see the first batch of papers in this world.

The color of these papers is relatively fair, although it is not as good as the paper of later generations, but this color is quite rare, and the thickness of the paper is relatively uniform and strong.

The first batch of paper was able to produce such results, not only because of the delicate craftsmanship of the craftsmen, but also because of the papermaking method provided to them by the machine.

The original method of papermaking in China was the paper pouring method, which was to pour pulp onto each curtain, and only one piece of paper could be removed from one curtain.

Since the pulp is poured onto the curtain from top to bottom, the paper made by the pouring method is generally thicker, but there will be uneven thickness in each position of the paper. And because there is too much moisture in the paper, the resulting paper structure will be looser.

The papermaking rule is different, you only need to use a curtain to make a mold, immerse it in the pulp pool, slowly "copy" the pulp in the pool, let the pulp spread a thin layer on the curtain, and then, put the bamboo curtain with wet pulp next to it to dry slightly, filter the moisture, and then use the same bamboo curtain to "copy" the second piece of paper. When the paper on the curtain accumulates to a certain thickness, the water in the paper is squeezed out with a pressing tool, and the paper is removed one by one to dry.

The paper produced by the papermaking method does not produce uneven thickness, and because the water is pressed, the paper is more flexible and strong, and the most important thing is that the papermaking method is relatively cheaper.

Zhang Ji looked at the stack of papers, cautiously stretched out his hand, and landed on a piece of paper made of trees.

The surface of the tree paper is relatively smooth after all, the texture is soft, that is, it is a little thick, and the structure is still a little loose, but it will never be as fragile as those papers in the early Western Han Dynasty. If it's just for ordinary writing, it's definitely enough.

Then, Zhang Ji's gaze fell on the mulberry paper.

The color of mulberry paper is not as white as that of tree paper, and it appears relatively yellowish. And the paper is full of traces of interlaced fibers, but these traces are relatively uniform and not messy.

However, mulberry paper also has its own advantages, the fiber of mulberry is tough, which makes mulberry paper extremely flexible, even if it is only a thin layer, it is very strong.

In Zhang Ji's impression, mulberry paper also has many characteristics, such as no fading, strong water absorption, and no discoloration, which is very suitable for calligraphy and Chinese painting.

The last stack is sandalwood paper made from the bark of a sandalwood tree.

Although these craftsmen did not have the delicate craftsmanship to make rice paper, with the same material, the sandalwood paper made from the bark of the sandalwood tree was more exquisite than the first two types of paper, and had all the advantages of tree paper and mulberry paper, and it was even better.

In addition to the cost of green sandalwood paper is relatively expensive compared to the first two, the color is fair, the toughness is very strong, firm and strong, the texture is uniform, the water absorption is strong, and it does not go out of color, so it can be said that it is a combination of the strengthened version of the tree paper and the mulberry paper.

Open the market of ordinary people with the cheapest tree paper, open the market of the hundred schools of thought and scholars with the most practical mulberry paper, and open the market of the nobles with the most exquisite sandalwood paper, which is why Zhang Ji collected these three kinds of wood as raw materials.

Yes, Zhang Ji wants to make money from paper.

Not to mention that Zhang Ji is not yet noble enough to sell at a loss out of his own pocket, and secondly, the implementation of paper and papermaking also requires a lot of financial support.

Moreover, selling at a loss is not conducive to the spread of papermaking.

Even if Zhang Ji took all the family property of himself and Jade Tiger, he would not be able to spread paper and papermaking skills throughout the Seven Kingdoms and completely replace bamboo slips and silk silk, and the resistance and funds required were not something they could afford.

At this time, the help of other businessmen is needed.

But the nature of businessmen is to pursue profits, and there will be no businessmen involved in unprofitable things.

Therefore, it is necessary to let the merchants see enough profits so that they can work hard to make and sell paper, and to promote papermaking for the machine.

Just like the truth contained in the story of Zigong ransom and Zilu receiving cattle.

Profitable things are the easiest to promote.

In addition, the emergence of paper was bound to be suppressed by merchants and aristocrats whose main business was the manufacture and sale of bamboo slips and silk silk.

If you want to defeat these merchants and aristocrats and get paper through these suppressions, you need a lot of money to support it.

Therefore, paper must be profitable at all levels.

Of course, the treatment enjoyed by different classes is naturally different.

Relying on the first-mover advantage and technical advantages, Zhang Ji can easily control the price of paper, according to the price infinitely close to the cost price, the tree paper sold to the poor people in the way of small profits and quick turnover, and then sell the mulberry paper that can record the same amount of characters at a price equal to about half of the bamboo slips, and earn a little money from the hundreds of schools of thought and scholars, and finally slaughter those nobles who like exquisite things and are elegant at a high price.

The summary is that the poor only take a penny of their money, and the rich don't keep a penny of their money!

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